Industrial growth may bounce back post election

By admin June 25, 2013 1:31 pm IST

J. R. Sapre, Director, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. anticipates that the growth rate for Indian industry will only improve post 2014 assembly election
How is the HVAC industry doing so far?There are various sectors like power which are not really taking off as they had some problems. There is a reason to be a good growth in domestic sector. There is assembly growth in agriculture sector, but other sectors are still going strong. In some areas, there is good potential, but in others it’s still going slow.
HVAC market is challenging, infrastructure and industrial HVAC market has good potential. A customer is more interested in latest world-class technology, sustainable solutions, user-friendly designs and 24/7 after-sales service.
Tell us about the newly launched product.We have launched our lowest Life Cycle Cost (LLC) series of products. These products are designed to achieve the sustainability for higher efficiencies and ensure that power consumption is reduced. We have designed these products for continuous working applications. In water supply, process, HVAC, power sector applications these products work for almost 24/7. So for such applications, sustainability of efficiencies and working at high efficiency are very important.
The capital cost of this equipment is higher to begin with, but its true benefits come by saving which you achieve over a period of time.
We have also launched suction diffuser and triple duty valves which give excellent solutions to customers for space saving and substantial saving in pump house design.
For small process HVAC applications, we have introduced our seal less range of pumps (iCP range) which are user friendly in design with quite less maintenance.
We have also showcased our latest version of Primary Variable flow (PVF) and Secondary HVAC controllers.Are you focusing on power and infrastructure sectors only?No. In fact, we have nine verticals including power, water, and irrigation. We also have operations in oil defence and gas, process industry, domestic and agricultural range of pumps. Then we have building and construction. So we have products across the sectors.
How is this useful in the building and construction sector?The sustainable or the high-efficiency products here bring down the running cost over a period of time to make sure the product is running for a long time. Almost 65 to 70 per cent of the power consumption in Delhi is related to some kind of pumping or the other; whether it’s a water pump or any other pump. If you can save 10 per cent power, it means that one power plant is not needed. That is why, sustainability and efficiency are important for this sector.